tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88197156406048120482018-09-17T04:12:33.154+01:00remember who you areNews on &#39;Shape &amp; Situate&#39; zine, alongside other projects, ideas &amp; events.Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.comBlogger678125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-52915925978955852652015-07-30T16:42:00.001+01:002015-08-17T17:24:56.217+01:00Contribute to Shape & Situate zine #7
Want to be a part of the 7th issue of 'Shape & Situate: Posters of Inspirational Women in Europe' zine?
If so, I’m looking for A5-sized black and white posters of inspirational/radical women (or women’s collectives) in or from Europe.
THIS IS GOING TO BE THE LAST ISSUE OF THIS ZINE, SO IF YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE NOW IS THE TIME!!
(Working on this project for the past 5 years has Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-73102693138049062052015-07-30T16:36:00.000+01:002015-07-30T16:43:35.793+01:00Images from the Shape & Situae zine in a day bonanza!Thanks to Leeds Queer Film festival for hosting the making of a special edition of Shape & Situate, focussing on self-identified queer women. Thanks too to Footprint Workers Co-op for collaborating and bringing the riso and for printing the zine as we made it so that it was ready to take home at the end of the evening. Thank you to everybody who took the time and effort to make and contribute a Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-83528966784952943932015-07-15T11:18:00.002+01:002015-07-15T11:18:50.361+01:00Shape & Situate at Leeds Queer Film Festival - special edition as a zine in a day
On Saturday 18th July at Leeds Queer Film Festival 2015, Shape & Situate and Footprint Workers Co-op will be making a Zine In A Day.
We’ll be making a special issue of ‘Shape & Situate: Posters of Inspirational Women in Europe’ zine.
It will be a zine full of A5 posters specifically focused on radical self-identified Queer Women in/from Europe. Women whose actions and contributions are Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-67592857725855800922014-12-30T15:16:00.000+00:002014-12-30T15:16:39.008+00:00Shape & Situare #6 now on salehttps://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/COTL?ref=hdr_shop_menu
ETSY
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/COTL?ref=hdr_shop_menu
UK only at the moment
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/COTL?ref=hdr_shop_menuColouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-69286582069061499232014-12-18T17:06:00.000+00:002014-12-18T17:06:04.436+00:00S&S #6 first glimpse!
Issue #6 of 'Shape & Situate: Posters of Inspirational Women in Europe' zine is back from the printers!
Huge thanks to everybody who contributed a poster, it's the biggest S&S zine yet (27 wonderful posters in this issue)!
They'll be up for sale at www.etsy.com/shop/COTL soon-ish, will soon be added to the Footprint Workers Co-op zine distro, and contributors' copies will be out in the postColouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-1257736387986813652014-12-18T16:52:00.002+00:002014-12-18T16:54:45.677+00:00S&S zine's Facebook pageShape & Situate zine now has a Facebook page...
facebook.com/shapeandsituatezine
Head over to there for the latest news!Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-43152948081195970892014-05-19T00:01:00.001+01:002014-05-19T00:01:36.252+01:00part & parcel
From my inbox...
Part and Parcel Venue: The Tetley, Leeds Date: Saturday 24th May 2014 Time: 12-4pm Free event, just drop in... In commemoration of the life of Nelson Mandela, artists Anne-Marie Atkinson and Clare McCormack invite members of the public to engage in conversations about the right to protest and speak out about what you believe. Take part in a shared creative opportunity toColouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-3027363072406808782014-05-18T23:58:00.002+01:002014-05-18T23:58:14.049+01:00syria speaks on tourFrom my inbox...
Syria Speaks is an anthology of uprising literature, art and culture, showcasing the work of over fifty artists and writers who are challenging the culture of violence in Syria with creative resistance.
Syria Speaks is a celebration of a people determined to reclaim their dignity, freedom and self-expression. Join Syrian artists and writers at events across the UK for Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-43305651051253147612014-05-18T23:53:00.004+01:002014-05-18T23:53:47.890+01:00making art, making media, making changeFrom my inbox...
Making Art, Making Media, Making Change!
Call for Submissions for zines, comics and other queer-feminist material to build up a resource collection Are you writing a zine, drawing a comic, or producing posters, flyers and other visual material with a queer-feminist approach? Would you like your materials to be accessible to young people, to get them thinking and to Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-33839897121099167042014-04-25T23:12:00.000+01:002014-04-25T23:12:17.153+01:00elisha lim interview"Elisha Lim’s work is a part of the Generations of Queer exhibit at Onsite [at] OCAD University. Curated by Lisa Deanne Smith, the exhibition (which also features the work of Robert Flack, John Greyson and Kiley May) is about storytelling and raising a public voice, exactly as you are."
Love that phrase!! All the info and a short interview with Elisha, including tales of being rejected from art Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-41109886425190688042014-04-13T15:32:00.000+01:002014-04-13T15:32:02.074+01:00Help get 'Passage & Place' to incarcerated queersLex Non Scipta writes: "Loves! Rebels! Brilliant creatives! Abolitionists! Annah Anti-Palindrome and I have just launched a campaign to raise money to publish the Passage & Place anthology. Help us carve out a place that turns up the volume on voices of "free world" and incarcerated queers writing on class, borders, identity, privilege, the prison system, memory, and so much more!"
Indigogo linkColouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-38960515581614357882014-03-25T22:21:00.002+00:002014-03-25T23:46:52.594+00:00Change of title for Shape & Situate zine
Thanks to very useful conversation with artist Meredith
Stern, the subtitle of 'Shape & Situate' zine will be changed as of the next
issue (#6) to hopefully clarify the scope and meaning of the project.
The zine will now be called, ‘Shape & Situate: Posters
of Inspirational Women in Europe’.
This change in terminology has been made to reduce any
misunderstandings of the project, or Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-51790567398009463632014-03-22T17:33:00.000+00:002014-03-22T17:33:01.194+00:00zines i'm loving right now
Zine recommendations
Disclaimer – yes, these zines are
both created by friends of mine, and so yes, that’s initailly how they came
into my hands. However, I’m writing about them here, not just because they’re
created by friends, but because reading them has struck such a chord with me
& I want to put my (jumbled and quite inarticulate) thoughts about
them down on a page in Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-19582426742541437422014-02-28T00:31:00.000+00:002014-02-28T00:32:37.166+00:00Annah Anti-Palindrome, 'Dangling Modifiers'
‘Help me
keep going despite the ache’
‘Recognize where privilege rests inside your bones
Use it to combat oppression
Find your role’
‘Know where you are, know where
you've been
You've got strength, allow it in’
Annah Anti-Palindrome, ‘Dangling Modifiers’ (2014)
I put this on when I got in from a particularly
wild/manic/frustrating/exhausting day at work and had come Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-91673468844276474832014-02-15T15:15:00.002+00:002014-02-15T15:15:14.624+00:00Intl postage on etsy (til 27 Feb)For a short time only (since I have to go to the post office anyways), I've made all zines in my etsy store available to be shipped worldwide.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/COTL?ref=si_shop
Have a look, if you fancy.
Issues of 'Colouring Outside The Lines' (a conversations zine, interviewing contemporary female artists), and 'Shape & Situate: Posters of Inspirational European Women' are Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-81448017684249025952014-02-15T15:09:00.000+00:002014-02-15T15:09:37.507+00:00yorkshire zine weekender
Sheffield Zine Fest 2014 will be held on Saturday 15th March 2014, 11am – 6pm, and we’re back at Electric Works, Sheffield! It’s an accessible venue and we’ll be running for longer this time to allow everyone even more opportunities to swap and buy zines, attend or deliver workshops. More info on tabling, travel and workshop sign up here: http://sheffieldzinefest.wordpress.com/
Then...
Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-67809926419788028052014-02-15T15:04:00.000+00:002014-02-15T15:04:01.424+00:00edie fake video Rad">http://vimeo.com/84936829">Rad Queers: Edie Fake
This above (taken from: http://vimeo.com/84936829), and the whole of this project: http://www.radqueers.com/Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-72851232156062170872014-02-15T15:00:00.003+00:002014-02-15T15:00:45.434+00:00detention centres comicAt work within out detention centres: A guard's story.
Well worth reading.
http://serco-story.theglobalmail.org/Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-32465211903465741942014-02-15T14:59:00.002+00:002014-02-15T14:59:37.243+00:00symposium on autobiographical comics by Jewish women (from my inbox)...
12 November 2014 Communities of Experience? A Symposium on Autobiographical Comics by Jewish Women JW3 The Jewish Community Centre, London Call for papers deadline 15 May 2014 Proposals for 20 minute papers or panels comprising three papers should be emailed to the organiers Sarah Lightman s.lightman.1@research.gla.ac.uk, and Heike Bauerh.bauer@bbk.ac.uk . Please include a Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-62036722773211447562014-02-15T14:55:00.003+00:002014-02-15T14:55:45.290+00:00WW3 illustrated Kickstarter(From my inbox... totally rad)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/world-war-3-illustrated-35-years-of-radical-comics
World War 3 Illustrated 1979—2014: 35 Years, 52 Artists, 1 Anthology
Founded in 1979 by Seth Tobocman and Peter Kuper, World War 3 Illustrated magazine is a labor of love run by a collective of artists (both first-timers and established professionals) and political Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-85919838228833284312014-02-15T14:52:00.000+00:002014-02-15T14:52:03.671+00:00paramedics to gaza
(From my inbox...)
PARAMEDICS TO GAZA: Call out for donations (please share!) As some of you know, we’re heading to Gaza in a few weeks to work as medical volunteers for six months or so. We both have unpaid leave from work and are self funding all costs, i...ncluding flights and accommodation. The health situation in Gaza remains at crisis point, with a chronic shortage of vital Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-58184354297309739252014-02-15T14:44:00.004+00:002014-02-15T14:44:49.197+00:00MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE I donated to this Kickstarter a couple of weeks ago. Such a neat project (that I'd love to see recreated over and over again, but in the meantime I will enjoy reading the book)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thebookmobilebook/the-bookmobile-book
Help us make a book about the 2001-2005 projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, a touring exhibition of artist books and zines.
After almost 10 Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-24817392402552980872014-02-15T14:41:00.002+00:002014-02-15T14:41:53.555+00:00feminist library badge collection(from my inbox...)
The Feminist Library would love some new designs to add to our badge collection, so we're asking our network to come up with some ideas, as we know we have many creative souls out there!
PLEASE pass this on to everyone you know who may be interested and is sympathetic to our work.
We're looking for two new designs, but if we get more that we like, then obviously we'll get Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-74253881163305402742014-01-25T14:29:00.002+00:002014-01-25T15:20:26.655+00:00CSPG video"I keep learning from the posters. Every week some poster will teach me something I didn't know; which is incredibly exciting"
As ever, this acts as a reminder of one of my dream volunteering placements. The CSPG is to damn inspiring. It's seeing stuff like this that reminds me and lets me know in big flaming letters that I'm in entirely the wrong job, and why I'm so frustrated by the work Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8819715640604812048.post-64550243188968141762014-01-25T14:15:00.003+00:002014-01-25T14:15:36.051+00:00'on women in art'Can't put my finger on why this irked me big time (kinda a feeling of , 'oh, this again', plus the title of the article rubbed me up the wrong way, plus it still ignores SO DAMN MUCH and ignores all intersectionality, etc, etc, etc), but nevertheless, good that this conversation is going on in the mainstream (Guardian/famous lady presenting it, etc) as an intro
http://www.theguardian.com/Colouring Outside The Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17106365019147746062noreply@blogger.com0